Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
Jimmie Briggs, . . Basic, $26 (188pp) ISBN 978-0-465-00798-1
Briggs does not lack for material—an estimated 10% of the world's fighting forces is under 18—or real empathy for the subject, but his intention to make visible a "tragedy hidden in plain sight" often fails. In part, that's because some stories are so gruesome, it is difficult to keep one's eyes on the page. Many sections move too quickly for readers to get to know the children or the places they live. In other spots, Briggs's research-heavy drill of acronyms and statistics is numbing. The exception is the chapter on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, in which Briggs, a
Reviewed on: 05/16/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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